The Learning Turn
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Modern artificial intelligence is dominated by systems that learn from very large collections of examples — the approach that overtook hand-written rules in the 2010s.
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In 2012 a learning system won the ImageNet vision challenge by a wide margin; in 2017 the transformer carried the lesson into language.
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The turn's costs — data hunger, opacity — are content, not footnotes; Unit 8 itemizes them.